LXD Weekly status #18

Introduction

After everyone got back home from New York City, we got back to work on LXD, LXC and LXCFS.

On the LXD front, other than a large amount of bugfixes, we’ve made our online documentation available through Read The Docs. It can be found here: https://lxd.readthedocs.io

We’ve also been designing and implementing a new API to retrieve an overview of system resources (CPU and RAM) and storage pool resources (disk space and inodes). This should make it easier to interact with a remote LXD daemon sitting on an unknown physical server.

On the LXC side, a new template to generate OCI based application containers has been included. And we’ve otherwise been fixing some of the bugs reported after the LXC 2.1 release.

The other main focus across all projects has been preparing the stable branches so that we can finally release bugfix releases for all the various branches of LXC, LXD and LXCFS. The branches are all now ready and we’re doing some testing on them before releasing. A call for testing is available here.

Lastly, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be running the containers devroom at FOSDEM 2018. More details to come soon.

Upcoming conferences and events

Open Source Summit Europe (Prague, October 2017)

Linux Piter 2017 (St. Petersburg, November 2017)

FOSDEM 2018 (Brussels, February 2018)

Ongoing projects

The list below is feature or refactoring work which will span several weeks/months and can’t be tied directly to a single Github issue or pull request.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based…

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD…